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Publisher: Alfred A Knopf Author: Jeanette Winterson TLA Rating: Not Yet Rated Shipping: Currently Available
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Book ReviewWinterson enfolds her seventh novel within the world of computers, and transforms the signal development of our time into a wholly human medium. The story is simple: an e-mail writer called Ali will compose anything you like, on order, provided you're prepared to enter the story as yourself and risk leaving it as someone else. You can be the hero of your own life. You can have freedom just for one night. But there is a price, and Ali discovers that she, too, will have to pay it. The PowerBook reinvents itself as it travels from London to Paris, Capri, and Cyberspace, using fairy tales, contemporary myths, and popular culture to weave a story of failed but requited love. "Weaving real and cyber-spaces, The PowerBook explores the impact of computers on human relationships. "Nobody can really know who or what you are through the medium of technology," Winterson says, "whichmakes it seductive, exciting and dangerous. It also absolves you of all responsibility. I like playing the game to see what might happen in that universe." Yet Winterson's work remains connected to reality. "If, like me, you want to break away from a linear plotline, yo uhave to anchor your work in something that's very seductive, very tangible," she says. Her anchors in The Power Book include a 17th century Dutch girl using tulips to change her gender, a grieving and silent Guinivere, and plenty of rumpled sheets and guilty lovers. "You have to use a lot of really grounded imagery that people can touch, see and feel," she says. "I want to be thick - full of meaning that people can tease out as they want to."
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